Facebook Blocking (And How And Why You Should Sometimes Just Stay Away)

       So there’s this Facebook female friend of a friend of mine who texted him this morning telling him that she was blocking him because she had sent him a “provocative” private message yesterday (February 14) and was embarrassed by it.  (She was probably carried away by the occasion.) Personally, he says he doesn't find the message “provocative” and it seems like she was just kidding. Well, jokes are half-meant, some will argue. Provocative messages for him are the ones with attached nudes, or least ones that show a cleavage. Or one that starts with the question: “What are you wearing in your bed tonight?” Lol. Anyway, it looks like she won’t change her mind about the blocking so my friend will remain blocked, which is sad, because they have been friends for so long.

       And speaking of Facebook blocking, a few weeks ago, I read a post in Facebook where a guy, after a girl (which he had a crush on and to whom he had sent the usual admiring but harmless messages) went missing for a couple of hours, was questioned by the girl’s relatives. The reason he was interrogated and was almost hauled to the nearest barangay hall? The girl blocked him in Facebook a few days before she went missing.  If the girl blocked him, the girl must have felt unsafe with him, the girl’s relatives intelligently surmised. Fortunately, it turned out the girl was just with her friends and was too busy having fun to bother with her family’s inquiring text messages.

       But still, the lesson to be learned here is, when somebody blocked you in Facebook because you annoy (intentionally or not) this somebody, you need to stay away from this person until he or she unblocks you. Nobody blocks on a whim, if somebody hostile blocks you, then he or she must have really gotten tired of you. Don’t text, don’t email, don’t send gifts, don’t create anonymous social media accounts and don’t sleep outside this person’s house. Unless you cherish being hauled to a barangay hall or worse, to a police precinct.

       Don’t make your embarrassment worse.